"War is the greatest plague that afflicts humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states and it destroys families … Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death."

In fact, expanding the food stamp program, so that people could eat at all, was considered one of the most effective stimulus provisions ” on the theory that money given to the neediest was the most likely to be spent quickly.